About Leanna Renee:

Press bio:

Leanna Renee Hieber is an actress, playwright, ghost tour guide and the award-winning, bestselling author of twelve Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy
and Supernatural Suspense novels for adults and teens for Tor, Sourcebooks and Kensington Books. Her Strangely Beautiful saga, beginning with The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, hit Barnes & Noble and Borders Bestseller lists and garnered numerous regional genre awards. Tor Books notes
Strangely Beautiful as a "foundational text of Gaslamp Fantasy" and new, revised editions are now available via Tor. Darker
Still was named an American Bookseller's Association "Indie Next List" pick, a Scholastic Book Club "Highly Recommended" title and a Daphne du Maurier award finalist. The Eterna
Files trilogy is now complete with Tor Books. The Spectral City, her new Gaslamp Fantasy series with Kensington, was a # 1 bestseller across several genres and digital platforms. A
4-time Prism Award winner for excellence in the genre of Fantasy Romance, Leanna's short stories have been featured in notable anthologies and her books have been selected for national book
club editions as well as translated into many languages. She lectures on Gothic fiction and paranormal themes for prominent institutions such as New York University and at conventions and
conferences around the country. A proud member of Actors Equity and SAG-AFTRA, Mystery Writers of America, SFWA, Historical Novel Society and International Thriller Writers, she lives
in New York City where she is a licensed ghost tour guide with Boroughs of the Dead and has been featured in film and television on shows like Boardwalk Empire and Mysteries at the Museum.
She presents a one-woman show as 19th century designer Clara Driscoll and is represented by Paul Stevens of the Donald Maass agency. She tweets often @leannarenee.

The Longer Biography:

Author, actress and playwright Leanna Renee Hieber grew up in rural Ohio inventingghost stories.She graduated with a BFA in Theatre and a focus in the Victorian Era from
Miami University. She began her theatrical career with the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and began adapting works of 19th Century literature for the stage. Her one-act plays have been
published, awarded and produced around the country. Her fiction career began with Dark Nest, which won the 2009 Prism Award for best novella.

Her debut novel, The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy
Parker, has been lauded by Tor Books as a "foundational text of Gaslamp Fantasy." The book landed on Barnes & Noble's bestseller lists, was named a favourite of
2009 by 14 book blogs, won two 2010 Prism Awards (Best Fantasy, Best First Book), the 2010 Orange County Book Buyer's Best Award (Young Adult category. The Perilous Prophecy of Guard and Goddess, prequel in
the Strangely Beautiful series, won the 2012 Prism Award (Best Fantasy). This currently out of print series has been reissued as
STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL and as PERILOUS PROPHECY by Tor Books with the finale in the series
MISS
VIOLET AND THE GREAT WAR finally available.

DARKER STILL: A Novel of Magic Most Foul, first in the Magic Most Foul saga of Gothic Victorian romantic
thrillers, hit the Kid's/YA Indie Next List as a recommended
title by the American Booksellers Association. The book has been praised by Seventeen and Pixie Magazines, Shelf
Awareness, The Chicago Tribune and selected as a "highly recommended" title by Scholastic and was a finalist in the Daphne du Maurier award for excellence in Mystery and Romantic
Suspense (Historical Category). The Twisted Tragedy of Miss Natalie Stewart continues the Magic Most Foul series and has been praised by Booklist, RT
Bookreviews and more. She is serialized the finale, The Double Life of Incorporate Things on her blog in
true Gothic Victorian fashion and the complete novel is now available.

Leanna's short fiction has been featured in anthologies such as Willful
Impropriety: Tales of Society and Scandal, "Too Fond" featured on Tor.com and Queen
Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy and the Mammoth Book of Gaslamp Romance. Her new Gaslamp Fantasy
trilogy with Tor, THE ETERNA
FILES, is now complete. Her books have been translated into many languages such as Polish, Complex Chinese, German, Thai and Turkish and have been selected for multiple national book club
editions. THE SPECTRAL CITY series is now available from Kensington Rebel Base Books with the sequel, A SANCTUARY OF SPIRITS, coming 10/2019. The Spectral City
has been a # 1 Amazon bestseller in Gaslamp Fantasy, #1 in Steampunk and # 1 Metaphysical Fantasy and was an additional bestseller across several digital platforms.

Leanna is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, The International Thriller
Writers and the Historical Novel Society. She is a proud co-founder of the original Lady Jane's Salon
Reading Series in New York. Leanna was named the 2010 RWA NYC Chapter Author of the Year.

A New York City resident, she is a proud member of performer's unions Actors Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA, Leanna
works often in film and television and has been featured on shows like Boardwalk Empire and Mysteries at the Museum.When not writing or on set, she is a licensed Ghost Tour guide
for Boroughs of the Dead tour
company and can be found wandering graveyards and adventuring in full Victorian regalia. Despite being always on deadline, she finds time to enjoy creating Gothic, Neo-Victorian
and Steampunk art and jewelry, and selling signed books, on Etsy. She lectures on Gothic fiction and writing the paranormal for notable institutions such as New York University. She is
represented by Paul Stevens of the Donald
Maass Agency. By the Light of Tiffany: A Meeting with Clara Driscoll is Leanna's new one-woman show channeling this talented 19th century designer. Leanna is active on social
media (mostly on Twitter
), where she loves to hear from readers, and is available for school visits, lectures and workshops for writers groups at reasonable rates.